Table 2.
Characteristics of tuberculosis patients associated with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Beijing and non-Beijing strains.
| Bacterial lineage | Crude odds ratio (95% CI) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Beijing; No. (%) | Non-Beijing; No. (%) | ||
| Gender | |||
| Male | 80 (70.18) | 138 (73.02) | 0.8696 (0.520–1.45) |
| Female | 34 (29.82) | 51 (26.98) | Reference |
| Age | |||
| ≤30 | 7 (6.14) | 2 (1.06) | 6.582 (1.330–32.570)* |
| 31–50 | 10 (8.77) | 22 (11.64) | 0.855 (0.383–1.910) |
| 51–70 | 30 (26.32) | 39 (20.63) | 1.45 (0.826–2.534) |
| >70 | 67 (58.77) | 126 (66.67) | Reference |
| Sputum smear | |||
| Positive | 62 (54.39) | 93 (49.21) | 1.31 (0.772–1.961) |
| Negative | 52 (45.61) | 96 (50.79) | Reference |
| Location | |||
| Pulmonary | 108 (94.74) | 183 (96.83) | Reference |
| Extra-pulmonary | 6 (5.26) | 6 (3.17) | 1.694 (0.533–5.385) |
| Antibiotic resistance pattern | |||
| All sensitive | 99 (86.84) | 163 (86.24) | Reference |
| Monoresistance | 2 (1.75) | 12 (6.35) | 0.2744 (0.006–1.252) |
| Polyresistance | 13 (11.40) | 13 (6.88) | 1.646 (0.735–3.695) |
| Multidrug resistance | 0 (0.00) | 1 (0.53) | — |
| MIRU analysis | |||
| Clustered | 36 (31.58) | 36 (19.05) | 1.962 (1.147–3.354)* |
| Non-clustered | 78 (68.42) | 153 (80.95) | Reference |
*Indicates that the OR is significant and p < 0.05.